Research Guides: Newspapers and News Sources: British Columbia

B.C. Newspapers - Full Text Databases - Contemporary

Canadian Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Canadian Newsstream offers the full text of almost 400 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Factiva provides access to a deep archive of news and business information, allowing users to conduct in-depth research on companies, industries, regional affairs.
Please limit number of articles downloaded to 100 per session. Please stick to that limit.

B.C. Newspapers - Full Text and Indexes - Historical

B.C. Newspaper Index - 1900 - 1990 - microfilm
This index has selective coverage of the Vancouver Sun, Province, Times-Colonist (and predecessors Victoria Times and Colonist) for 1900-1990. It was developed by the BC Legislative Library so the focus is articles about BC history, politics, and economics. This index on microfilm is images of the original index cards. You can search only by subject or name headings.

It is important to start your search by first finding suitable subject headings: consult the B.C. Provincial Library Newspaper Index List of Subject Headings, and updates. Once you have found suitable subject headings, proceed to the microfilm collection for the B.C. Newspaper Index at Koerner Microforms AW1 R5065, consult the appropriate reels, and note the citations to articles you wish to read. The articles are found on other microfilm reels for the appropriate newspapers and dates.
B.C. Newspaper Index - 1991-2007 Online
This online index has selective coverage of the Vancouver Sun, Province, and Times-Colonist for 1991 to 2007. It is produced by the BC Legislative Library so the focus is BC history, politics, and economics. Search by subject/name, headline, author, keyword. Because this is an index, once you have found references for articles of interest, you must then locate the full text of the articles in either microfilm or online newspaper collections at the Library. Canadian Newsstand has the full text of most articles listed in this index.
BCARS (British Columbia Archives and Records Service) Newspaper Index - pre-1900 to 1980s
Indexes articles in a variety of historical British Columbia newspapers. Microfiche of BCARS index cards for newspaper articles. Coverage from pre-1900 newspapers through to 1980s. Depth of coverage varies. Because this is an index, once you have found references for articles of interest, you must then locate the full text of the articles in either microfilm or online newspaper collections at the Library.
British Colonist
Website contains all the issues of the British Colonist (also called the Daily British Colonist, the Daily Colonist, and other variants) from its first issue in 1858 to 1970. The British Colonist was the leading paper in the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, and was the paper for the province of British Columbia until the emergence of Vancouver and competitors in the 1890s.
British Columbia Historical Newspapers
B.C. community newspapers published from 1865 to 1989; collection varies by date and newspaper.
Canadian News Index and Canadian Newspaper Index
British Columbia Regional Digitized History Newspapers
British Columbia Regional Digitized History (B.C.R.D.H) is a partnership between UBC's Okanagan Campus Library and numerous community memory institutions to digitize historical, primary source, and archival materials throughout British Columbia's southern interior. The collection linked here contains digitized newspapers.

Province (1894-2010) This link opens in a new window
One of Vancouver's two daily newspapers.

B.C. Newspapers - by Title

Major local, Vancouver, and BC papers in the UBC Library collection, contemporary and historical

Daily Colonist - online | microformat
Georgia Straight - print | online
New Westminster Columbian - print | microformat
Province - print | online | microformat
Times-Colonist - online | microformat
Vancouver Courier - online
Vancouver Sun - print | online | microformat
Ubyssey - print | online | microformat